This time, he asserts that the federal government is "slashing domestic spending."

Many of these measures have been painful; the government slashed civil service salaries by 65% in 1993.

The Government had already slashed interest rates and increased public-works spending.

In the same period, the Government has slashed financing for many other "discretionary" programs.

The government will also slash the budgets of state enterprises by a tenth.

International investors continued to switch their money out of sterling because they expect the Government to slash interest rates.

The government also slashed the royalty fee paid on revenue from 12% to 7%.

The new Government has slashed the fee for a diamond trading license to $50,000 from $150,000.

To meet those targets, governments often slash environmental protection budgets, they contend.

The government slashed the roads programme 3 times, each by a third, in response to direct action techniques and associated public opinion.